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Students Tracked By RFID
TheMeuge writes "The New York Times is
reporting
a new development in the unrelenting progress of the
RFID juggernaut. The school district
of
Spring, Texas has adopted RFID as a way to track students' arrival and
departure. Upon being scanned, the data are transmitted to both the school
administrators, as well as city police. I guess cutting class is no longer an
option."
I wonder if this is coming closer to the Mark of the Beast that the bible talks about?
How can it be? Revaltions it was an apocalyptic writing (one of many) about the state of the Christian church at that time, under threat from both overt source (persecution) and more subtle ones (people lured to other faiths, such as worship of the Roman emporer).
Whatever the Mark of the Beast was supposed to be, it was something that existed then, not now. So it can't be RFID tags. Revelations was never a prophecey or prediction.
A quick Google turned up this which looks like a good starting point for finding out about apocalyptic writings.
"What if they had spent that money on making kids want to go to school?"
Ok, let's hear some ideas. I'm a teacher, so I'll be ecstatic to get some help in this area. Before you begin though, understand that we're state mandated to provide instruction on specific topics in a specific timeframe. We also have to make sure that no one is left out of activities, or if they are, develop an alernative activity. We also have to make sure that Susie who takes one day to learn plate tectonics doesn't get too far ahead of Johnny who takes 4 days. We also...
I hope you see the point. School simply isn't fun most of the time. No matter how you slice it, some things are boring to teach and boring to learn. Couple this with restrictions on teaching techniques, budget problems, and over protective parents, and I'm amazed anything get's taught.
(Former?) Ed. Secretary Paige's "success" in
the Houston, TX educational system was based
upon faked data. Students that did poorly
were moved to another school district, while
the majority of dropouts were never designated
as such. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
His "success" in Houston was the premise for
Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program, which
has brought little success but much turmoil
to school districts across the nation. This
is largely due to it being a Federal, albeit
woefully underfunded, mandate.
RFID tags, particularly implanted RFID tags,
for students is the wave of the future. And
when many of these students do drop out of
school, they will feel equally at home with a
minimum wage job at their local Wal-Mart, which
eventually will require their employees to be
RFID-tagged, along with their stock of WMD
(Wal-Mart Merchandise Dumping).
In reality, our calenders should be altered
to reflect that "1984" was the start of a new
epoch, rather than just a prescient sci-fi
novel.
Just for the people who don't know: Here is a link to the Milgram experiment. In the experiemnt, it was found that around 60% of people would continue administering painful and life-threatening electric shocks to a stranger at the request of an authority figure.
The Stanford Prison Experiment has recently gotten a little more press as a result of the problems at Abu Ghraib. Volunteer students at Stanford University were put into one of two roles: guards or prisoners. Despite being smart, "psychologically stable" people, the guards rapidly became abusive and the prisoners had varied reactions, from rebellion to one developing a psychosomatic rash within a day. (Philip Zimbardo ran the study).
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